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Some City Council members are pushing for subway station grading system similar to the one used to rate restaurants’ cleanliness – but the MTA is red-lighting the proposal.

Documents released by federal investigators show the bus driver involved in a deadly Bronx crash when returning with passengers from a Connecticut casino last year was hired in 2007 to drive a city bus.

Transport Workers Union President John Samuelsen slammed the planned arrests on Friday of 10 NY MTA workers for faking signal inspections in the subway. The workers allegedly falsely claimed they checked the signals that keep trains moving smoothly and prevent them from crashing into each other.

The MTA's Fastrack program, which shuts down large portions of subway lines overnight, isn't just for Manhattan any more. The pilot program will be expanded to the outer boroughs - possibly to the chagrin of late night riders.

More than a third of all long subway delays are caused signal problems, according to an analysis of 3,000 text alerts sent by the NY MTA last year.

Long Island Railroad riders might not see service to Grand Central Terminal on the East Side of Manhattan until 2019, a year later than expected.

MTA chairman Joe Lhota told planners at a Midtown conference on Friday that the first project on his "wish list" is extending 7 train down 11th Ave to 23rd St.

Each Thursday in April, Sam Schwartz, aka Gridlock Sam at The Daily News, and former NYC traffic commissioner, explains another facet of his plan for equitably pricing NYC transit and tolls. This week: mass transit.

The Transport Workers Union is criticizing the MTA's decision to take $50 million from NYU to clear out of 370 Jay Street in downtown Brooklyn and make way for a new school of applied science. Union President John Samuelson said the authority should instead renovate the largely empty building and move its offices there from 2 Broadway in Manhattan.

Former New York Governor David Paterson has been nominated by his successor, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, to serve on the board of New York’s MTA.

The MTA will be partially closing the A, C and E subway lines overnight again this week.

A new report has concluded that worker error contributed to the breakdown that paralyzed the Long Island Rail Road when a lightning bolt struck a critical signal shed.

Subway ridership rose 2.3 percent in 2011. New Yorkers and city visitors took 1.64 billion trips, the most in any year since 1950.

The New York City subway recorded 1.6 billion rides in 2011 — the system's highest number since 1950.

Countdown clocks along the M-34 bus route — which runs from Bellevue Hospital on the East Side of Manhattan, past the Empire State Building and ends at the Javits Center on the West Side — will be removed from stops beginning Monday.

Beginning Monday night, shutdowns will start with portions of the No. 1, 2 and 3 subway lines as part of the MTA's so-called Fastrack program aimed at making overnight repairs to the city's subway system.

A former Metro-North employee is suing the MTA for discrimination based on his sexual orientation.

A new report says the first phase of the NY MTA’s security upgrade after 9/11 won’t be done for another two years, and that cost keeps rising.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said the MTA wasn't following the same safety rules at the site of Tuesday's crane collapse that other property owners must follow because the transportation authority is exempt from local regulations.

MTA chairman Joe Lhota said a proposed extension of the No. 7 train subway line from Manhattan to New Jersey is "not going to happen in our lifetime. It's not going to happen in anybody's lifetime."